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Lucette is not one of those people who ventures out into places on her own where there's really any risk at all of a wild demon attacking. And if she did encounter the slightest sign of one, she would turn around immediately, hopefully before it could capture her and send her to some unknown and presumably horrible fate.
Apparently this is an insufficient amount of caution.
Rationally she should be more scared of whatever the demon is about to do than the ground approaching but she is not being rational right now and is instead screaming.
Thud; crack.
Once she's composed enough to look around, she can see that she's in a forest, at night. The plants are basically but not exactly like ones she's used to. There's quite a lot of light off in that direction; she can't see the source.
There's also a light source above her, which is much easier to see. It's very colorful, and quite large, and - there might be strange noises coming from it? It's far enough away that it's hard to make them out.
Lucette attempts to sit up and get her bearings and very quickly discovers that she should not be putting any weight at all on her right arm. Or, now that she has a moment to notice pain, either of her legs.
It looks probably like fire! If fire could hold an enormous colorful lamp aloft in the air. And also - people? The sounds are coming into focus and she can decipher them into extremely strange music like none she's ever heard, and - voices. - And there's a silhouette, too, hanging out over the edge of the dark box below the globe.
-that doesn't look like a demon. It looks like some sort of invention being shown off at a fair in London.... but not one she's heard of... At least it's interesting enough to distract her from all the pain.
The strange lamp reaches as high over her head as it's going to get and starts drifting past her.
-oh quite probably she should be screaming for help. So she shall do that.
"Hellllp!" screams Lucette, failing to see a way to make this even slightly dignified.
Several more silhouettes peer out from over the edge of the box! The music abruptly cuts out, and they yell something to her. She can't really make out the words.
The people keep trying to yell to her. Nothing else much happens for several minutes.
Then, an even stranger object appears in the sky, glowing in a way that is definitely not fire. It sweeps past her, then circles back. It pulls to a stop once its lights shine on her, but then starts zooming further away again. She sees it halt and descend toward the ground, past some trees.
He begins assessing her, and sprays some sort of substance on her cuts, which are really not her biggest problem. "What's your name?"
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